2008 Candidate Responses

MANP is pleased to participate in the V3 Campaign whose goal is to get candidates for local and national office to start talking about the nonprofit sector. To this end, we have surveyed all Maine candidates for national and state office and asked them the following two questions:

1. Please describe your personal and professional experiences with nonprofit organizations.
   
   
2. Please provide specific ways in which, if elected, you would partner with and strengthen the nonprofit sector to achieve the goals of your campaign.

Here are the responses of those who have responded:

1st Congressional District

• Chellie Pingree (elected)
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• Charles Summers
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2nd Congressional District

• John Frary
• Mike Michaud (re-elected)

US Senate

• Tom Allen
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• Susan Collins (re-elected)
  V3 Campaign Blog Posting

State Legislature

• House District 7: Zachary Earl Smith
• House District 16: Doug Damon
• House District 17: Sara Stevens (elected)
• House District 33: Marie Emerson
• House District 38: Carrie Jones
• House District 46: Joan Welsh (elected)
• House District 47: Edward J. Mazurek (re-elected)
• House District 53: Les Fossell (elected)
• House District 55: Christopher Doyon
• House District 62: Donald Rogers
• House District 67: Eric H. Dickey
• House District 81: L. Gary Knight (re-elected)
• House District 82: Patrick S. Flood (re-elected)
• House District 84: Miles Ranger
• House District 121: Cynthia A. Dill (re-elected)
• House District 122: Brian Durham
• House District 127: Sean Peter Flaherty (elected)
• House District 131: Don Marean
• House District 141: Edward P. Legg (elected)
  
  
• Senate District 1: Peter Bowman (re-elected)
• Senate District 8: Justin L. Alfond (elected)
• Senate District 11: Jerry Davis (elected)
• Senate District 16: Margaret Craven (re-elected)
• Senate District 18: Walter R. Gooley (re-elected)
• Senate District 32: W. Tom Sawyer, Jr.
• Senate District 33: Wanda Beland

MANP does not endorse candidates, nor does any activity of the Nonprofit Voter Engagement Project seek to promote or endorse any political party. All activities of this project are designed to comply with the IRS guidelines for acceptable political activity of a 501 (c)(3), nonprofit organization. MANP ’s goal is to educate candidates by making them aware of the impact and potential of the nonprofit sector, and to educate voters by soliciting information directly from candidates on how they would strengthen and partner with the sector if elected.